Live Auction 17420Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School
Niccolò Circignani, Il Pomarancio (Pomarancio 1517-after 1596)
Lot 94

Niccolò Circignani, Il Pomarancio (Pomarancio 1517-after 1596)

The Conversion of Saul

Closed4 December 2018

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Niccolò Circignani, Il Pomarancio (Pomarancio 1517-after 1596)
The Conversion of Saul
with inscription 'Pomerancio' (verso, only visible through the old mount)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
10¼ x 6 1/8 in. (26.1 x 15.4 cm)

John Thane, London (1748-1818) (L. 1544).
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription 'e dono Matt H Bloxam Rugby School Art Museum and attribution '1516-1588 Pomerance [in another hand?]1552-1626' [the latter dates crossed out]' (on the mount) and 'Niccolo Circignani dit Dalle Pomerance 1516-1588' (on the verso of the old mount).

Specialist note

As attested by the few sheets securely connected to his frescoes, Niccolò Circignani's drawing style in pen is rather dry, focused mainly on the outline of the figures, as shown in this drawing. The work can be tentatively connected here to a fresco of the subject in the chapel of Saint Paul in the Duomo of Città di Castello, similarly developed in a narrow vertical format. Circignani completed the fresco circa 1570, before moving to Rome.